Colorado retail theft rising: "It's just a free-for-all," says witness
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2023
- Read the full story at cbsloc.al/3C3qUzA ... A Denver woman recently witnessed a shoplifting incident that left her rattled. Retail industry lobbyists say theft is on the rise and costing corporations billions of dollars.
My dad got fired for trying to stop a thief. They actually apologized to the thief and sat my dad down in a manager meeting before letting him go. Society is losing its mind because of money
This is all prophesied in the Bible. The company wants to avoid liability and litigation regarding excessive force by someone who is not a police officer. Also, your father put his life on the line over merchandise that probably would have been covered by the company's insurance policy. Not wise for your Dad to risk his life over a $20 T-shirt
@@user-vg8ez9cu6u You've literally proved my point. Because of money no one is stopping thieves from stealing and people that do the right thing (regardless of the value of item) are being punished because of the risk towards the company (again about money).
Your dad lost his job because of liberalism. Acceptance and tolerance unbridled, is the same thing as no standards. It only emboldens the wrong people.
@@Resistculturaldecline I definitely agree. I'd like to add too our society has slowly lost its grip on accountability over the years. On the surface America is fat, but inside we are unhealthy with thin bones.
@@itstayayg193 We're not a merit-based society anymore. Power and leverage is assigned by identity-based ideology, emotionally driven, and a being a "victim" is highly lucrative in modern America. All liberal agendas.
Complete breakdown of society.
America is built on this conduct.
If there were no thieves, America wouldn't exist.
That's the whole idea, learn your history,the left said it would take decades and now it starts 😢
american society
@@lenaely6146 Its Democrat - not America - that is the neat trick Democrats are trying to pull - shift blame from THEM - you? - to "America"
Here is The Scam !!! y'all ready ?? owners don't give a Crap because they have insurance and they still collect !! LOOK IT UP THEY ALL DO IT SO.........in order for them to Sound Passionate about these Dilrods aka Thief's !!! they play the Don't worry about it Card!!! How would They act if they Couldn't Recover their Losses thru Insurance SCAMS !!!!! LOL WAKE UP EVERYBODY !!!!!
It’s not fair to the people who are not stealing to have to pay for these crimes that are being committed by these criminals. The laws need to get tougher and there needs to be greater consequences for these acts of crime. It’s sickening.
Learn to vote correctly and see who started this. Who permits this. This country has turned into a lawless mess. Thanks to the powers that be.
25 years in prison is a good start.
Yeah & take our guns too the government and police should be the only ones able to protect us
@Karl with a K so you mean "Yes" , No freedom and marshall law for everybody over a little shopliftting on products that are priced 1000% more than they cost to make in a 3rd world country by children earning slave wages enjoy your Nikes and apple products yippy
these corps have committed crimes against humanity - selling goods made by child slave labor - they fully endorsed democratic platform of defunding police
All over the country, very infuriating. Things are tough for everyone, that doesn’t give you the right to steal. Need to get this under control.
Yes, and Joe Biden's solution is to allow more illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. -- a country where businesses are closing, and as a result there are "fewer jobs" for illegal aliens. It perfect sense to the 81 million imbeciles who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
Correction. It may be a serious issue across the country, but it is NOT an issue in Republican run red states, that haven't lost their ever lovin' minds. Revolving door "policing," WOKE DA's coddling thugs, legalizing shoplifting, & hard drug use
are laws seen in New York, Illinois, & my doomed, & dying state California, & some Democrat run hell hole cities in some red states, but generally this is a Blue state, Blue city regressive Democrat problem that doesn't exist "all over the country." Only in certain states, & cities with one thing in common, sadly no Republicans in power. You get what you vote for. Detroitification is in the futures of all these Democrat ruined disaster zones, you big-brained,
tolerant chumps.
KOut
Not in my state, but then again, my state still has people that have a brain and aren't complete idiots like democrats and librals. I'm so grateful my state doesn't put up with shit like this.
The laws need to get more strict. These judges just let them off of the slap on their hands. The judge should be held accountable for letting these criminals back out on the street over and over again with no repercussions. In Vegas at the Broadacres swap, meet everything there is stolen merchandise from around the valley. I can’t believe that that place can even remain open and you never see any police there they’re doing it blatantly right in front of your face.
Yes it does. Maybe you should stop complaining and start doing something about it.
The lady who filmed the thieves was probably more worried about the corporate HQ finding her and prosecuting her for “interfering.” That’s how upside down society is.
If they don't want to defend their merchandise they should lose their businesses.
@@fr_reynolds5002 And the sooner the better.
In Denver and colorado, yes. In red states, no way.
@@AlexZ-lc6nl Funny....I know someone in Texas who recorded an incident for their own protection and was subsequently let go from their job....in a red state.
@@EXccord Lots of blue cities in Texas.
Well, if any retailers have been looking for an excuse to close their brick-and-mortar stores and go 100% online, this is it.
Been saying just that all along..no more brick n mortar stores .
Sad but this is the future the high ups want us to have. Call me crazy but I see the future. I got a pretty damn good record2. I Kno it sounds nuts right.
You can spend cash at brick and mortar stores...this is sealing the deal for digital currency take over. Govt loves it.
These smash and grabbers are DOMESTIC TERRORISTS and should be treated as such!!
then they just steal from the trucks
Our laws need to change. Of course I would never steal, but sometimes I feel like a fool waiting in line to pay when stores do NOTHING to deter thieves. wtf???
Ha ikr
This was me and my gfs logic the other day, like why dont everyone just walk out with less then 1,000 and you won’t get charged. Make them change the law back to make it harsher otherwise im about to start joining in cause fuck walmart and fuck these dumbass democrats who voted for them
I feel the same way when I re-enter our country and stand in line to show my passport.
I remember working as a cashier fifty years ago, when the supermarkets started staying open until midnight, the manager paid local cops under the table, to come in from 6pm-12am, to watch out for theft. Nothing ever happened, but the corporations are too cheap now, to think logically.
Welcome to the new America, where guards with weapons, are going to be the norm.
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I remember working as a cashier fifty years ago, when the supermarkets started staying open until midnight, the manager paid local cops under the table, to come in from 6pm-12am, to watch out for theft. Nothing ever happened, but the corporations are too cheap now, to think logically.
Welcome to the new America, where guards with weapons, are going to be the norm.
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As an elementary teacher, I see this behavior from our students in school. A complete consequence free environment breeds chaos.
Wow even elementary kids steal? Do they know stealing is bad or are they just not pure or innocent?
you get what you vote for
Bring back the paddles.
Inflation… yeah.
You’d think if it were inflation, companies would also feel the pinch. Instead, corporations have record profits. Let me repeat: record profits…
Enough with the inflation lie. Theft is a response to corporate greed. If I see someone stealing, no I didn’t.
If you vote blue, you get a zoo
When you don't arrest people for crime... *THEY COMMIT MORE CRIME!*
Colorado liberal Democrat hell on Earth where the brutal police beat the sh-t out of the citizenry and the Democrat politicians allow the woke liberals to loot and steal with impunity. Leave that terrible place.
"Arrestng" is not the issue- it's NOT PROSECUTING due to "Progressive Democratic" District Attorney's.... CLUE IN you dopey voters!
when the jails are full and the backlog of people in said jails waiting for a judge to see them and sentence them is months long where and what exactly do you expect police to do? This is the effect of small government, of government that is not appropriately funded, and a low tax system... Without government Anarchy ensues and we are witnessing the beginnings of anarchy while we defund our government.
@tiny99990 You meant defund law enforcement. The government gets plenty. They just waste it on bs like welfare for lazy liberals or gender dysphoria shows.
More an issue with liberal DA not prosecuting these people. Cops are arresting people when they're called.
I feel so bad for the lady working at this store. The store won't allow them to catch the thieves. The government ain't doing anything. She just simply have to wait for the day she'll lose her job because these businesses will eventually close due to losses.
As a former loss prevention security officer, I had a coworker who tried to stop a shoplifter and got her arm stabbed with a knife. It's worth it to stop a thief.
As brainwashed as you are it’s not worth it for a shoplifter to waste their time on you but you keep trying to play hero and see where that gets you.
No law & order, No tax! Law abiding citizens pay high taxes to all levels of government to have Law and Order in communities instead of this type of lawlessness. Citizens should band together and refuse to pay taxes until the crimes are handled properly by the government.
I'll agree to that, but how do we do it?
@@zenjon7892 one thing is not re-electing officials who don't keep their promises in their FIRST term.
@@zenjon7892 Vote Republican, they like lawful citizens and actually put people in jail for commiting crimes.
If we refuse to pay stamp taxes, the British will invade and have another revolutionary war...
@rustytr stop paying your taxes and see how that goes..........wouldn't really work unless a huge number of people did it, then they could fine us, but why couldn't we just not pay that, too?
How easy is it to steal when they know they won't be stopped 🤦♀️
It is strange that they don't lock the doors and wait for the cops.
I stop them. Few chases here, few got to meet my fist.
@@TheGhost2612000 probably worried if they are armed or on something they'll be a danger to the customers and staff. Crazy times.
I'm surpise no security guards😐
With store policies like that they deserve to go bankrupt.
When I was 7 years old I got caught shoplifting at a store. I was really scared. Security called my Father to come and get me. On the way home I was really relieved. I was Happy and smiling . Glad I had got away with it. I felt i was smarter than everyone else. When I Got home my Father gave me the SPANKING of my Life. I never stole anything ever again. smiles. .
😊
I hope this store manager doesnt get fired for speaking the truth about her company.
She was probably cleared by them before doing the interview.
@@KKemp-bt6nl yeah because you need corporates permission like a good little lap dog
@@KKemp-bt6nl We HOPE...but otherwise, she's probably looking for another job. Sad but often true.
-- BR
def fired
😂 here in Texas we have a law that allows citizens here in Texas to protect property and life using deadly force which is why there isn't as much of this like else where
If this continues, you will start to see vigilantes take this into their hands. The pendulum is about to swing the other way. This shit can not keep going on.
no, the store owners will have to go in there them selves with guns, never going to happen.
@joesmith9216 there are people out there as I am one of them, who do not like the current status of our government and the lawlessness. This is not exceptable. Are you not tired of paying higher costs because someone else makes it that way?
@@montecarlo7437 get enough goods to keep your self alive anyway, all that matters now, 2025 they will pull the plug for good, full scale riots.
@@joesmith9216 - WTF are you babbling about?
@@montecarlo7437 - how did you feel about the state of government and the lawlessness under the previous administration?
Sad thing is many people don't even realize this criminal behavior exists.
If you think about it there is over 300 million people in America. Just 1 percent of bad people is 3 million people. That can cause a lot of damage. I don't think anybody should really be that surprised. I count us lucky is not worse here.
How is that sad that they don't know about this? Is every person expected to keep up with what criminals are up to now? lol and what are they supposed to do about it?
We are now living in a world of "0" accountability or responsibility and another thing...shame. There's no more embarassment or feeling shameful if you've done something wrong. Then again, NO ONE is ever wrong - it's usually the fault of someone else. So, if you want something, just steal it. If that doesn't work, you burn, destroy, violently protest, loot and commit acts of violence. Sadly, it's only going to get worse.
A Walmart closed in Portland, never thought I'd see that. Leaves urban decay, loss of jobs, loss of affordable retail and vandalism. All this can be stopped with morals and law enforcement
in a BLUE STATE it's a losing battle. Maybe if we got a functional president in office there would be a chance. Like an RFK or someone.
Try 2 Walmarts in portland and around the nation.
In Portland you get neither.
@@l.siestador7248 no you sure don't but hey, Portlandia is vehement with its support of trans folks...
100% agree.
This is what happens when you don't enforce the law. When you're constantly giving people second third fourth and fifth chances and you're making criminals feel like it's okay to commit as much crime as they want
Yep.
Or 48 times like the scumbag from Houston texas
In Kansas City Missouri it's really terrible
Because transportation is free so homeless people can just steal and catch the bus as a get away driver.
It's terrible
If the security guards hired would do their job and actually stop the criminal by standing in their way and grabing the stolen merchandise before leaving the store it could deter them from coming back after this type of encounter ❤ being told never to come back and actually getting law enforcement involved if the total reaches more than $100 I believe in some states are different. But photograph them and warn them never to return is how it should be handled. #retailsecurity
I think for this city is $900 ,R.I.P. for them
City and state officials stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the thieves.
This is total insanity! When are the people in charge going to grow a backbone and stomp this out? How stupid would you feel as an honest, paying customer as you watch a thief pick up goods and just walk out with them as you hand over your hard-earned cash?
The stores will be closing just like the inner cities in Portland, Chicago and LA. This is what you get for not enforcing crime
That is why in the future, people will buy everything online and crime will be, as it is already happening, online.
Yup! Portland is 💩 right now. No Walmarts… no clothing or home items in fred meyers
I live in L.A. and yes, you're absolutely right 💯
This is what you get for not enforcing crime??? They are enforcing crime...
Thank your liberals
Why even lock the store doors anymore? Our justice system have shown they don't care and have given criminals a free pass.
Sounds legit to me. After you 'close up" for the night, just leave the front door open.
Businesses are too cheap to install an affordable locking cage in front doors
Usually use of deadly force can't legally be used to protect property.
Under the circumstances that might need to be reconsidered. There needs to be a deterrent otherwise laws mean less than nothing.
And law enforcement is far to busy generating revenue, and VIOLATING the Constitutional RIGHTS of law abiding citizens, to get off their doughnut enlarged asses to actually go out and protect the lives and property of law abiding citizens.
Those in law enforcement ARE pure trash.
Correction: Democrat justice system. This shit doesn't happen in Republican led states, because we prosecute criminals to the extent of the law.
They just need to hire more social workers to stop and talk to the criminals.
Why is it shocking when you see it happening in every other city.
This isn’t just a CO thing….I’m in FL and we have ORC thefts multiple times a month and we aren’t allowed to do anything about it, not even record or take a photo or we lose our jobs. It’s not safe to work retail any longer and we as retail workers are NOT getting paid enough to do our jobs AND be security.
Why can't you record or take a photo?
Leave those jobs and tell them why.
@@lesliesorady5771 Companies are trying to lessen liability if a worker or shoplifter gets hurt. If a worker gets hurt, they will sue the company. If a shoplifter gets hurt, the same. Our society is overly litigious and that makes simple situations very complicated.
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 new laws need to be made that shoplifters can not sue for injuries while committing a crime. Then prosecute. If it's organized theft, it's federal crime with severe long term jail.
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 Liberal laws in liberal states with liberal companies.
Back in the 1980's and 1990's I moonlighted as loss prevention with Target and Walmart... we accosted theives, and if they fought back, we drug them back into the stores kicking and screaming. They were arrested and received jail time for theft and assault. Organized shoplifting was rare and most of the time, just yelling at them as they went out the door resulted in them dropping the merch and running. If retailers can't have the legal system behind them in defending their stores and merchandise, this will escalate to the point where there will be no more brick and mortar retail stores.
It's not assault if YOU're the one who laid hands on them or tackled them first. And there's no law against defending yourself from loss-prevention, FYI. It's self-defense, not assault
That will never happen in liberal Colorado because they are soft on crime.
HO! Maybe that (no more physical store) is what's driving this..."strategy?" Is it deliberate or merely stupidity?
@@pilotdawn1661
I would say with the Wal Mart stores this is intentional.
Wal Mart stated years ago they plan to go 100% online but did not say when they plan to be online only.
@@greenelephant1231 You give up your right to self defense when you commit a crime. Fyi more then just police have the right to arrest you and detain you on private property. Yes that includes the parking lot.
I remember working as a cashier fifty years ago, when the supermarkets started staying open until midnight, the manager paid local cops under the table, to come in from 6pm-12am, to watch out for theft. Nothing ever happened, but the corporations are too cheap now, to think logically.
Welcome to the new America, where guards with weapons, are going to be the norm.
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Girl, why would you want to stop them? They ain’t stealing from you!
exactly.
That's what our country has become. Honest, hard-working people footing the bill for criminals.
Interestingly... This country was founded on honest, enslaved people, working for lazy murderers. I guess nothing has changed.
This is what pisses me off. Wasting our taxes for these bull crap!
Yeah, retail theft is far from the worst of it. Wait until you find out where your taxes go 😮
Unfortunately the boomers are retired so there is not much chance of the leeches making their own way.
It’s always been like that aren’t u use to it yet
These corporations are also enablers. Pretty soon they will fire their employees for not bagging the stolen merchandise and helping them take it out to their car.
Wage theft is much larger than shoplifting but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
Who would have thought that not holding criminals accountable would lead to more crime!
Defund the Police and Drag pervs will deter the criminals. Oh and take away the 2nd Amendment that’s the answer. FJB F the DemoRats!
That`s what criminals do they just act and think like criminals
We don't hold cops accountable either, or bankers, or people in the financial services, or government workers, or corporate executives. There are tons of people who have no accountability in this country. The police kill innocent people all the time, break every law they are supposed to uphold, harass and intimidate citizens and look at you with suspicion for exercising the same rights they swore and oath to defend and uphold, but it generally isn't until a cop decides to go against one of their higher ups that they get any type of punishment. There are many injustices that happen everyday, I for one don't give two shits about someone stealing from the same corporations who thought price gouging their consumers during a pandemic was a good idea. Also, come back to me when they start arresting executives for wage theft.
Mostly idiots would have thought that. Sane people are aware it's more relative than that, and that a sufficiently motivated (destitute) person will attempt to compromise any amount of defense.
@@waitwhat1320 I'm glad to see you think only in logical extremes.
If there is no stopping them now, how is this going to look in the future. I'm starting to wonder why I'm still paying my credit cards!
Exactly the point. Why do some people in the lower income bracket pay to ride public transportation when too many around them don't. After a while, they will feel like they are being taken advantage of by the system that condones mob behavior. The myopic progressives then argue that public transportation should be free. They are a pathos without any understanding of what floats a system financially. We are being led by ignorant and dumb people who are not qualified to govern a society of human beings.
Here is The Scam !!! y'all ready ?? owners don't give a Crap because they have insurance and they still collect !! LOOK IT UP THEY ALL DO IT SO.........in order for them to Sound Passionate about these Dilrods aka Thief's !!! they play the Don't worry about it Card!!! How would They act if they Couldn't Recover their Losses thru Insurance SCAMS !!!!! LOL WAKE UP EVERYBODY !!!!!
Omg you write👍🏼
@@S.Clause What doth he scribe?
So you want to be a thief just like them. 🤦🏽♀️ Make that make sense. #SeekGod😌🙏🏽🌟🕊
It is easier for retail stores to get the money by getting merchandise stolen than selling it. You know they have insurance on everything they have, so in the end they don't loose anything 😊
You have to ask yourself why the government is allowing this to happen?
I work retail & have to tell customers certain items are not available because they were stolen.
BooHoo
I work retail I say the same thing.
Or under lock and key.
As a retail manager it has become too dangerous for workers to stop shoplifters. In many cases I have witnessed an employee gets hurt in the struggle. Knives, threats and even guns have been involved. 10 years working at the Army Navy surplus in Englewood I have never seen it worse.
I love shopping there but it isn't worth dealing with these type of people. It's like you have to sit on your hands. Stay motivated!
Better find a way, because stores are just going to close.
You should move, we don't have this problem where i live because we enforce the laws here
what happened to security loss prevention or a police patrol. it is unsafe to work in places like that.
If you study criminal justice you all will see it's all one big joke. Three systems, law enforcement, the courts, and corrections all fight against each other. Retail crime is so low level officers usually take minutes to hours to respond to these calls. If the DA picks it up it will turn into a plea deal. If they go to jail as punishment it might only be for a few days to a week. If lucky maybe a year in county jail. Grand larceny is the real crime in retail!
Evil will thrive when Good people do NOTHING!!!
This is what happens when political leaders are more interested in the votes of criminals than normal society. I am beginning to wonder if these politicians should be held criminally liable for their actions.
Yep, my co-worker was fired for stopping a theif from stealing. That's so wrong.
Where & when?
I'm thinking we need a new Attorney General in CO
ALL the AGs, DAs, prosecutors, and local judges in this country are selected by the Soros foundation. They're pushing what they call "restorative justice" that makes up for stuff that happened before anyone was born, and it is basically going soft on crime because society "owes it to criminals" to let them get away with stuff.
@@3Stormswhat other theory can you pull out of your rear end? 😂
Mexicans SMMFH
Here is The Scam !!! y'all ready ?? owners don't give a Crap because they have insurance and they still collect !! LOOK IT UP THEY ALL DO IT SO.........in order for them to Sound Passionate about these Dilrods aka Thief's !!! they play the Don't worry about it Card!!! How would They act if they Couldn't Recover their Losses thru Insurance SCAMS !!!!! LOL WAKE UP EVERYBODY !!!!!
People voted for this. So enjoy the suck!
The reason this is happening is because people are tired of the rampant inflation and paying exorbitant prices for things. They see certain rich people and think they can have just as much as they do, if they steal it.
That’s not the reason, there are poor people out there who are honest and wouldn’t even consider stealing. It’s greed, wanting something without working for it.
Law makers should be in prison for life for doing zero about this extreme crime
The solution is to allow shop owners to defend their property however neccessary without fear of prosecution.
Why don't we got a bit further and ask ourselves why the hell people are stealing stuff in the first place
...the elite rich....
Then came along BLM.
And then what shoot out in stores
Yo moma
Then you will have more accidental violence and murders. Moronic post on your part.
it is pretty annoying when im standing in line to pay crazy prices for groceries and watch someone else just walk out with whatever they want.
@@Sunlesslime yeah no thanks
Colorado liberal Democrat hell on Earth where the brutal police beat the sh-t out of the citizenry and the Democrat politicians allow the woke liberals to loot and steal with impunity. Leave that terrible place.
Them people also vote democrap
@@Sunlesslime why don't you leave the United States. The American people don't need lazy criminals who don't want to work and who want to tear down America.
Stop voting for Democrats
This is what happens when there are no consequences.
This soft on crime approach and we need to give criminals a chance to change their ways is working wonders. Its like watching a social experiment happening and
were shocked by the results of these decisions.
Kinda hard to keep stealing with no hands…
Yes! Hard to steal when your no longer breathing too.
Double aught sends a much clearer message. Problem is you can't make them clean up the mess as you may be able to do after just taking a hand.
this
I remember working at a record store back in the 80's. When we saw a shoplifter, we'd grab them, take them in the back, and call the police. Our store had very few incidents of shoplifting.
I worked at a grocery store in the mid 80's, and some dumbass tried to steal a carton of cigs, he ended up tackled in the parking lot and had to get a bunch of stitches in his head. If I ran my own store, I'd keep a 12 gauge under the counter.
Usa was great in 80s. Now its a liberal free for all
@civlyzed yeah, pretty sure it would be murder to shoot someone who's shoplifting if that's what you're getting at
@@gregorio87 That's not what I'm getting at necessarily and there's no worries. I have no plans to open my own store. However, I would have no qualms about racking it back and pointing it at someone if they were blatantly stealing from me.
that was 40 years ago.
This is what happens when a store has a policy of not stopping shoplifters. Enjoy the loss of money .
So very many stores go out of business. I lost my cashier job due to too much theft. Over 5,000 employees lost their jobs due to closure. They walk in fill a few carts and walk out. One of our employees asked a theif as he was about to leave our store with a cart full if he wanted help, he answered, “I would have asked for help if I needed it”. Unreal. Walking right passed the register without paying.
Politicians knew this would happen with their soft on crime law, and they refused to do anything about it and even claimed crime had dropped! Bottom line is that this is the outcome they wanted!
Yep Donald Trump started doing whatever he wanted and pretty soon so was half the country.
it's some sort of twisted socialism. soft on crime, if you can pay you pay. if you can't everyone else subsidizes your criminal activities.
Yeah , ever since the law passed (basically to protect criminals) this behavior has been an epidemic
@@jzmcgriggs8652 Yes. These are all Trump supporters Im sure lol!
@Jz McGriggs criminals want democrats in charge, soft on crime liberal D.A.'s do nothing about it. Your blind ignorant Trump hatred only hurts YOU.
This kind of behavior is infectious! Can you even imagine what paying customers are thinking when seeing robberies like that? Why would anyone pay at the counter anymore?
Colorado liberal Democrat hell on Earth where the brutal police beat the sh-t out of the citizenry and the Democrat politicians allow the woke liberals to loot and steal with impunity. Leave that terrible place.
I imagine you still pay at the counter, right? Why do you pay at the counter?
I pay at the counter because I can, and because thats what we do in a civilized society, almost everyone understands that second part, but is unable to pass the first part because pay is too low while the cost of everything is too high... I make 980 a month and pay 680 in rent and I live in a part of town where I have had my car vandalized, I have had it broken in to, trash is everywhere, gunshots right outside my window, murders every other day... so its the cheapest place in the city, I pay 100 in electric because the building is old and not well insulated and so heats up very quickly, I live in Southern AZ where most years its 100 before may and stays in the 100s until end of september at the earliest. Internet is practically a basic necessity and I pay $50 for was is effectively 3g internet connectivity at best. I get 130$ in food stamps but with the extreme cost of everything that doesn't get me through the whole month unless I buy shitty unhealthy foods which I do which is why I am obese even though I have a physically demanding job and work 5 days a week... I have a cellphone because I aparently don't qualify for a free one because I make too much money, and that means I pay 40$ for my phone $50 for car insurance and $40 in gas since public transportation doesn't go to my work and where I work is too expensive for me to live near, and so when I do buy something I pay at the counter with what I can... I see people stealing food most of all, and if I couldn't get food stamps I would definitely steal food because I'd have to, I can't go catch my food by fishing, or hunt my food thats illegal, nor can I pick wild growing fruits or vegetables as thats also illegal... The people stealing other things are almost always stealing to make money to buy food instead of stealing it... ironically... or stealing it to cloth themselves or their children... This is the effect of not having a living wage in the country, is rampant theft... Kleptomaniacs are a hilariously small percentage of the population and yeah they will steal regardless of what they earn, but the vast majority of people steal because they believe they have to, pay them a proper wage and they will go back to paying for shit, because thats what people in a civil society do.
Giving out of Genuine Care Is A Better System Then Money. Money is just a Paradigm and Genuine Care Is a Better Paradigm. Money is a Paradigm Where You Care About Stuff. Genuine Care Is a Paradigm Where You Care About Other People.
@@sensot1757 Nobody cares about other people. I just care about me and my family, and that is enough without worrying about the billions of others who are fighting to survive.
Simply waiting on line to pay is annoying, may as well just leave without paying if it's not even considered a crime anymore.
It’s almost like the school to prison pipeline worked💀😭 I can tell you right now that once a bum always a bum, lock up teens who steal, get tickets, do drugs, and get them rehabilitated and in therapy. Don’t make them do x hours, but evaluate each case by who has a the willingness to even change on their own, even if they didn’t get caught. We need harsher sentence, AND this idea that time effects everyone’s ability to mature and grow the same
This will only continue or get worse until those committing these crimes
are held accountable for their actions.
I think it's great. These people voted for this. I have no sympathy. Everyone who complains deserves a slap in the face.
I'm thinking the deep state want us to be forced to buy on line. Why else give all the ppl on welfare free phones? All those big stores have cameras so they're directly contributing to anti social behavior.
What do you care about corporations f them. Worry about yourself and community Americans worry about the wrong stuff
You realize it cost anyhwere from 15k-100k to try,convict, and jail. The store may lose $200-$1000. Libtards need to realize money doesn't grow in trees. This is the stores problem and nobody elses.
You are joking right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They're doing this shit across the Nation. This crap NEEDS to stop!.
Nope, mainly under democrat controlled cities.
Colorado is ruined by a Democrat Governor and Mayor.
This is ONLY in #DEMOCRAT_INFESTED AREAS ✅🤡
No, they are doing this in areas led by Democrats and this is their problem. It is a direct result of their votes and there is no need to stop it because this is what they wanted when they cast their vote. It would be downright un-American to not respect their Constitutional rights.
PERSONALLY I COULDNT CARE LESS ABOUT PEOPLE STEALING FROM STORES. MOST OF THE STUFF IS MADE IN CHINA IN SWEAT SHOPS WHERE THE WORKERS ARE STARVED AND BEATEN JUST SO THE MANUFACTURER CAN SAVE A FEW DOLLARS BY NOT HAVING THE GOODS PRODUCED HERE IN AMERICA. FURTHERMORE THE GOODS ARE OVERVALUED AND MARKED UP FAR BEYOND THEIR ACTUAL VALUE.
IT'S NOT WORTH IT TO STEAL. 🙏❤
When I was a store detective at Pathmark, we used to beat the crap outa crack heads stealing batteries, baby formula, and painkillers
In 2010 I was working at a small department store in Wisconsin doing loss prevention. I was making $9 an hour to confront thieves. I had brass knuckles and knives pulled on me. I had to ask guys twice my size to follow me back inside. My partners were two middle aged women, one was the wife of a local cop, so I did have his cell phone number, but I was only 20 years old and thought I was a big shot having my own office and just getting off the cash registry or truck unloading. In retrospect I’m disappointed my parents didn’t try to talk me out of this job. It’s absolutely crazy to confront animals like this for a minimum wage living.
Yup...I used to help loss prevention. I was a stock boy. But it was fun.
If your parents talked you out of stuff instead of letting you be your own adult then you’d be a sheltered incapable adult child. It’s a good thing you had that experience and learned from it in more ways than one. Self worth, the realities of society, and etc. It’s not a bad thing to work an eye opening job like that for a bit at a young age.
@Micah Burns sure but then again you can get injured in so many different ways in life in general.. car crash, bad fall, sports, etc. you don’t have to be in loss prevention to get hurt in life. Your not really safe anywhere, that’s the sad truth.
@Micah Burns think about the amount of catastrophic back injuries people get from working in warehouses. Like I said lol you are never truly safe.
yep, because loss prevention isn't actually a priority, any grunt work isn't a priority so it gets minimum wage, which no one can live on nowadays and haven't been able to for a decade...
"Retail theft is rising, originally thought to be driven by inflation but really due to lesser consequences by our city officials"
Fixed that statement for you
Correction: Perpetrated by degenrates due to them having zero morals and even less of a conscience.
I said the same thing lol
Exactly
"...and by corporate enablers."
I’d love to live somewhere where petty thieves are the most I have to worry about.
I am a manager in retail and I am empowered to do more by my company than most, however what gets lost sometimes in this uptick in theft in how frustrated, discouraged and humiliated me and my team feel when this goes on over and over and over. It is a real kind of victimisation.
Armed guards at the doors. You loot...we shoot. That's the only way to stop it.
Might want to check that again pal. Won’t be so simple as just you loot you shoot. Try that with the police ah wait that’s why you won’t be one.
@@Junior-rt6xr Why would the police be looting Junior?
@@roybiggs3325 😆😂😆😂👍
It Needs to be Wayyyy More Graphic, I recommend an " MACHETE MILITIA "
good luck, they can't even touch THEM....
This is one of the reasons why the rest of us have to pay such high prices.
next time try NOT having a movement to vilify the police and take away their funding.
just a thought.
@@whitetiana3022 whoa whoa whoa, this is about workers not dying for a business or someone else's profit.
the cops not having tanks to maintain order is another. Leaving customers wondering why they are paying when bums can just walk out with merch is what will cause the most damage in the long run.
Nope. Monopolies are the reason.
Your steak could be worth $4/lbs. But because all the slaughter houses work together to regulate the sale of beef throughout the country, we eat more imported beef than our own cows that we ship out to other countries!
Edit. Actually i forgot about the bottlenecking taking place right now. All the farmers and ranchers have a surplus of cattle right now. But the slaughter houses cant get them through because they arent all running 24/hrs a day because of all the new covid regulations.
So the farmers are getting screwed on selling the cattle they raised. There's all these fda regulations that prevent them from starting their own slaughter house.
This causes an artificial shortage of food. Thus an increase in price beyond reason.
@@atchmon902 same thing with energy housing healthcare food and our current monetary system
My man SHRINK and theft sprees have been a thing forever. Retail businesses would never have reached the sizes they do if they couldn't figure out how to economically deal with this kind of shit. You're being incensed by sensationalized news ya fuckin dinks.
Organized crime should be prosecuted as burglary, which is a felony. And if they use weapons, it's armed robbery, a more serious felony. This is not shoplifting, i.e., a misdemeanor. This is a no-brainer.
Yeah, some retail chains only look at the bottom line. They factor in the price of litigation for preventing theft and the price of the stolen merchandise. Many believe that it's more cost effective to just let people steal rather than face huge litigation costs. I try not to shop at places that allow stealing. Pretty soon, the cost of stolen merchandise and lost business from people fed up with stealing will outweigh any litigation. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
Most of these low paid retail workers don't even have employee covered healthcare they would not get their hospital fees and funeral expenses paid if they end up injured or dead its not worth it to be a hero
Its called workman comp.
Oh fuck workmans comp. OG post had it right. Zeeeeero motivation to be a hero
You know I wonder why I even stand in line and pay at this point.
Lol! I've thought the same thing. Makes me feel like a schmuck!
You can be a degenerate, just like the rest of them. 🤦🏽♀️ #SeekGod 😌🙏🏽🌟🕊
Do do it bro...some people have been killed don't roll the dice
Sucker 😂
If you live in Cali, or a similar place.. well, shit, I'd be rolling the dice, too, perhaps.
Walmart pulled a bunch of stores out of Chicago recently because of theft the stores made no money. Walmart was chastised for it. Insane....
Trap doors. Like in banks. Pin them between two doors. Post warning at store entrance, if you steal you have no rights.
If this continues, brick & mortar stores will become a thing of the past, and all shopping will have to be done online.
Porch thieves
Genius idea my guy, let's pay to house the thieves
Then you'll have to hire security guards for your front porch.
I do wonder if, within my lifetime there will be blocks full of empty retail properties because corporate America decided that having a physical storefront isn't worth the hassle.. lots of derelict buildings in the future perhaps, that's depressing.
that's the plan.
Some of these thieves may actually be taking the items to a drug dealer directly in trade. We had that happen in our neighborhood. Neighbors, pay attention, if there is a lot of foot traffic at someone's place or they have a lot of merchandise piling up, say something, enough complaints can force an eviction.
Here is The Scam !!! y'all ready ?? owners don't give a Crap because they have insurance and they still collect !! LOOK IT UP THEY ALL DO IT SO.........in order for them to Sound Passionate about these Dilrods aka Thief's !!! they play the Don't worry about it Card!!! How would They act if they Couldn't Recover their Losses thru Insurance SCAMS !!!!! LOL WAKE UP EVERYBODY !!!!!
Arab store owners ???? Really??? They have so much cash on them!!!
LOL
@@possum9562How wrong you are at my store the loss calculated ones a year and that has to be payed back to corporate was $100,000 other stores where much higher.
@@KA-su9ww PROVE ME WRONG IVE BEEN DOING DATA AND RESEARCH FOR 9 YEARS NOW !!!
When the Dims take control of an area....... That area becomes trash.
Americans fellow countryman and women, this is a huge reorganization of how we should buy things imposed by the big online retail companies.
What's shocking about it? This is what you VOTED FOR!!!
You will go the way of Chicago, SF, LA, with stores leaving in droves...😊
I went looking and sure enough, Colorado has a Demonrat gov. Live with what you voted for.
Polis wanted to fundamentally change Colorado. He did it.
@Michael Alvarado And thaat is why CO and Califorzuela 2.0.
Political agendas don’t dictate what these businesses policies are, nor what the police policies are. If you think one party cares about your safety over the other, I fear that you are sadly mistaken.
@Thomas Knapp would you rather live in a red or blue state? I know which one's are safer.
Condolences from SF.
We should also punish wage theft from corporate companies.
I work at a Ross and I see this all the time. We are told that just saying, “Hello,” to everyone who walks in the door may deter shoplifting. It does not. It is very frustrating that employees can only purchase items off the clock but we never have enough staff. One person does the job of 5. No overtime. Ross is more worried about internal theft than external. We’ve had the same shoplifters over & over again and nothing ever happens to them. Nothing. I understand why people wonder why they’re paying when others are literally walking out. It is not inflation. I grew up in a low low low income and this is just the mindset of some people. Some worked wanting more and some were never given the tools to know better. And now nothing happens to these people so why not? When I see shoplifters I just tell them to have a good night and see you again soon lol. Because we will. 😊
Youre absolutely right! The thieves know that they can get away with it, they know the Police wont show up to arrest them either! So its easy for them! I've been in retail for 29 years now and pesonally it just makes me sick to watch this happen and we as employees cant touch them or even deter them because we will get suspended or fired! I'm over this crap!
Nah they don’t deserve to have a good night. Tell them to have the night they deserve 👍
Thank you for the "inside" and true information without their drama and excuses for corporate price gouging 👍
That's interesting. I have noticed that many stores make it a point to have their door-minder say hello to everyone. It clearly wasn't an accident and judging by some of the people I wasn't going to chalk it up to good manners. Makes perfect sense that it's some consultant's nonsense psych trick to reduce shoplifting. What a joke.
You're also put in a can't win situation. Lose your job or raise due to high shrink or lose your job to trying to protect your livelihood. There needs to be a law to prevent companies from doing this.
It's not the thieves that should be incarcerated, it's the politicians that promote it.
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Why not both?
I was looking for this comment.
It's not the politicians that should be incarcerated, it's the people that voted them in.
@@Janzer_ I used to think the same thing until I realized how many elections are stolen.
My st. Louis suburban Quik-Trip store has gas for $3.49. Five miles away in the inner city the same day the same gas is $3.69. Their mostly black clientele have to donate $2 for every 10 gallon fill-up to pay for the rampant shoplifters inside the store. You'd think THEY would care.
They're waiting for politicians to come up with a solution to this? After they caused this problem to begin with?
It is NOT driven by inflation! It's driven by mobs that want drug money and chaos
Democrats.
Spot on, my thought EXACTLY when he made that claim.
You can't put them in jail, jails are full already
Unacceptable, the lawmakers should be in jail. They don’t see how this is going to bankrupt everyone?
The sad thing is, they don’t care, because they don’t have to face the consequences.
that's the goal, you cant control people who can take care of themselves
Every time I read someone write “Send them to jail!” or “Lock them up!” I IMMEDIATELY know said person has NO fucking clue how the law works. 😂
I think bankrupting everyone is the ultimate intent.
They do. They see how shipping the works overseas going to bankrupt the country, they see the decades old wars going to bankrupt the country. They see it, this is why they doing it.
This explains why in NYC, I have noticed at my local TARGET, ARMED SECURITY AND NYPD. Retail in this city want to make sure customers can shop safely. They want that money and they DON'T PLAY. Colorado, better get your act together!.
It’s called crime and punishment. This isn’t rocket science😅
How can they not know who the thieves are if their faces are shown quite clearly?
*Because the Justice System is a captured agency? Because American's are too stupid that the really, in fact, is the entire government is captured by the global cabal, utilizing Soros, WEF. Club of Rome, Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations. BLM and Antifa are footsoldiers, not grassroots protest orgs- precisely why FBI was caught actively directing these groups (they had a surveillance drone on Rittenhouse direct assets to attack him, they had the footage and facts the whole time and withheld evidence to hope for a conviction). I could go ON and ON.*
Wake. UP.
they don't investigate. cops just don't care anymore
They are dressed like entitled college students. The one guy wearing shower shoes and they are smiling, wow.
@@dogjeepmeat are all college students 'entitled'?
Whoa... Just because I can see somebodies face, I'm supposed to know them? You've never seen or met somebody you didn't know? Amazing..
It’s a break down in American society. Disrespect for honesty and proper order. I think they should be in prison for 10 years or more
The USA has so many slaves/prisoners that they don't even know what to do with them anymore. Maybe it is time to review values, such as cultural narcissism, obsession with money and power etc instead of proposing the same solution for the thousandth time expecting different results.
Taking more care of people (including their mental health) instead of spending trillions to sabotage other countries is also a great way to start.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the anti-drug policy (or the monopoly policy for drugs, since the American government also traffics) has already been proven to be a total failure. When you demonize all drugs in the same category, you make people think that all drugs are the same, so that if some drugs are good for them and easy to deal with, they will think that the same is true for the others.
There used to be consequences for such actions but the radical left has taken the side of the marginalized criminals. Fucking joke
This is what happens when transplants from blue states like CA vote
It’s what Marxists want, the first pillar to take down is people’s faith in the criminal justice system. Thank George Soros for this.
Or just do as Saudi Arabia did, chopped off the thief's hand. The result? 2006 is the last they did that punishment. Why? Who in the hell would dare to steal again if you could lose your hand for stealing? It's not worth it.
When you don't get arrested AND jailed for this - then it's just Christmas shopping.
If no one is going to do anything about it then might as well go to the black market and buy those items at a discount
I work in retail and we see this everyday, and to be honest, I am 63 and I was not hired to be a cop.I try to deter these peby asking them if they need help,which deters some of them,but I don't paid to get yelled at or attacked by criminals and drug addicts. Stores like Walmart make billions yet they don't have real security,plus the courts don't take minor theft seriously and these people get no punishment if caught.Sending them to prison might finally change their thoughts about stealing.
They can't steal while tending to bleeding bullet wounds. But we don't do that in America. Soon there won't be any retail stores left. Then what?
When jails and prisons are full, and a lack of judges causes wait times for sentencing to be months long even for petty theft, what do you expect the Police to do? They prioritize worse crimes due to a lack of government funding because we have defunded our government so much, we are witnessing the beginning stages of anarchy because we continue to defund our government.
Thats why so many walmarts and krogers are closing. They give no reason but we all know.
instead of wasting money sending them to prison, why not just pay them living wages?
@@willtheoct you have a point but if you paid above living wages but had no prison for stealing then whats the point of stopping? Some stealing food to survivecwill stop. Those stealing watches and purses will keep on keepn on.
Watching from New Zealand. This is shocking that local authorities and companies are tolerating these shoplifters.
There are not many local authorities anymore thanks to the “defund the police” movements. This is now the result 😔
Coming to your local western nation near you. The west is not reparable. Middle east will take over
Why is it shocking? This is what the liberals want and is the consequences of their policies
Democrat run cities and states! This doesn't happen in Texas!
This doesn’t happen anywhere other than Democrat run cities
This phenomenon will accelerate the death of malls and retail stores in general, and cause wholesalers to focus on online selling.
Weak laws and no harsh punishments is the cause of all these.
It is high time the citizens of this country stand up and take it back.
How can society do that when criminals are treated like victims and victims are treated like criminals?
@@jagdtiger9287 they cant arrest 10,000 plus people, not to mention the whole country
Citizens are not willing to stand up to thieves and get shot, stabbed or thrown to the floor. Some have tried that and they ended up in the hospital. One shop owner ended up in prison for defending himself, and the thief ended up dead. There is no justice for honest people who try to help. It's not worth risking your life or health over a bag of merchandise. And they know it. That is why they are helping themselves. This is why we have police. This is why shoplifting is illegal. This is why stores need security personnel who can do something about it, if they are allowed to. Stores must redesign the layout so shoplifting is nearly impossible without getting snagged.
all you have to do is go to law school, get into business, take on projects, acquire grants and money and you could do it. But you dont. You sit on your ass with no dedication to career. If you overthrow the government, we will be left with worse. u guys suck
@@jagdtiger9287 It may have to be dealt with on a higher level of No Merci to the criminal.
I saw it happen at the same store. It was absolutely crazy and the employees are not able to do anything about it. Unbelievable and very wrong.
Why should they or want to? Why put their liberty and life at risk for some big company who doesn't care, won't support them, and pays them crap wages?
So what is the point of having security then??
Funny how they target the online sellers but thieves in front of their eyes they can’t do anything about, what’s a twisted society 😢😢
I seen this exact thing happen in Vegas at a TJ Maxx. A black woman just filled up three bags. Do you know those reusable bags that you see you at the front registers at TJ Maxx? She grabbed three of those filled them up to the brim and walked out the doors. None of the workers even attempted to stop her. I couldn’t believe it.